Robot arm `tastes´ with engineered bacteria
(World News Science)

A robotic gripping arm that uses engineered bacteria to `taste` for a specific chemical has been developed by engineers at UC Davis and Carnegie Mellon University. The gripper is a proof-of-concept for biologically based soft robotics. `Our long-term vision is about building a synthetic microbiota for soft robots that can help with repair, energy generation or biosensing of the environment,` said Cheemeng...